Dictionary Entry
suborn
suborn is a 6-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To procure or cause to take a false oath amounting to perjury, such oath being actually taken.
- 2transitive verb
To procure privately, or by collusion; to procure by indirect means; to incite secretly; to instigate.
- 3verb
induce to commit perjury or give false testimony
"The President tried to suborn false witnesses"
- 4verb
procure (false testimony or perjury)
- 5verb
incite to commit a crime or an evil deed
"He suborned his butler to cover up the murder of his wife"
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